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The short- and long-run effects of private law enforcement : evidence from university police
Heaton, Paul S.; Hunt, Priscillia E.; MacDonald, John M.; … - 2015
known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …
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Capital-skill complementarity : evidence from manufacturing industries in Ghana
Akay, Gokhan H.; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009
Using U.S. manufacturing data, Griliches (1969) found evidence suggesting that capital equipment was more substitutable for unskilled than skilled labor. Griliches formulated this finding as the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the...
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Do immigrants displace native workers? : evidence from matched panel data
Martins, Pedro S.; Piracha, Matloob; Varejão, José M. - 2012
Using matched employer-employee data, we analyse the impact of immigrants on natives' employment in Portugal. Using different model specifications, we show that the natives and immigrants are 'complements' at most occupation levels, in the sense that they are jointly hired and fired. Controlling...
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Worker matching and firm value
Moen, Espen R.; Yashiv, Eran - 2012
This paper studies the value of firms and their hiring and firing decisions in an environment where the productivity of the workers depends on how well they match with their co-workers and the firm acts as a coordinating device. Match quality derives from a production technology whereby workers...
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Cyclical skill-biased technological change
Balleer, Almut; Rens, Thijs van - 2009
Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this question, we construct a quarterly series for the skill premium from the CPS and use it to...
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Does easy start-up formation hamper incumbents' R&D investment? : a theoretical and empirical analysis
Colombo, Luca; Dawid, Herbert; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2013
This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the implications that complementary assets needed for the formation of start-ups - proxied by the ease of access to financial resources - have on the innovative efforts of incumbent firms. In particular, we develop a theoretical model,...
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Globalization and employment : imported skill biased technological change in developing countries
Conte, Andrea (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2007
This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct...
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Is there too little immigration?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper presents a model of legal migration from one source country to two host countries, both of which can control their levels of immigration. Because of complementarities between capital and labor, the return on capital is positively related to the level of immigration. Consequently, when...
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Will the skill-premium in the Netherlands rise in the next decades?
Dupuy, Arnaud (contributor) - 2007
While the skill-premium has been rising sharply in the US and the UK for 20 years, the Dutch skill-premium decreased for much of that period and only started to rise in the early 90s. In this paper, we investigate whether the Dutch skill-premium will rise in the next decades. To answer this...
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City beautiful
Carlino, Gerald A. (contributor); Saiz, Albert (contributor) - 2008
The city beautiful movement, which in the early 20th Century advocated city beautification as a way to improve the living conditions and civic virtues of the urban dweller, had languished by the Great Depression. Today, new urban economic theory and policymakers are coming to see the provision...
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